Building an AI English Teacher

Unlike other posts such as AI Writers, and AI Voice Agents, let us focus on building an AI English Teacher here.

At the end of year 2024, we can say that we are still early in our AI tools adoption journey and have an excellent opportunity to build a better AI English Teacher. This AI English Teacher is software backed by AI technology and will act as a real English teacher. How can we build this AI English Teacher and what does it do?

Current State of English Schools, Data, Students, and Teachers in the USA:

We need to look at the current state of English teachers and English students in the USA to identify the overall market opportunity.

The five data sets play a role in creating an AI English Teacher Agent so we need to capture those data sets info.

1. The typical US education levels and grades;
   1. 44,600 Pre-Schools (2 - 5 years of age),
   2. 87,498 Elementary Schools (5 - 10 years of age),
   3. 14,677 Middle Schools (11 - 13 years of age)
   4. 25,000 High Schools (14 - 18 years of age)
   5. 4,000 Colleges and Universities (19 - 24 years of age including M.S.)
   6. Total 175,775 schools or colleges or universities if we sum all the above
2. The data: expected and defined English curriculums, approved books, projects, approved exams
   1. 23 English curriculums when we take expected age 2 to age 29 curriculums
   2. 46 English Books (23 years * approximate 2 books = 46)
   3. 3,515,500 (above 175,775 schools * 2 semesters * 10 projects/semester= ) English Projects/year given so far
   4. 46 Exams/year (23 years * 2 semesters = 46)
3. 400+ billion web pages of internet data (based on various sources to estimate Google's index size in 2020)
4. There are roughly 3+ million (8.1 percent) of U.S. students were classified as English learners/students
5. There are over 1+ million English language arts teachers currently employed in the United States.

Note: The above data is approximate and taken from various sources such as https://nces.ed.gov/ , and other internet sources. You could see the data differences based on the context and the data year.

Our AI Solution - An AI English Teacher

Building An AI English Teacher

Step-1: Create English Teacher and Student Journey

Typical English Teacher and Student Journey and required base data:

Step-2: Gather the required data

1. Gather all the above English domain-specific 4 data sets except the 5th internet data (400+ billion web pages)
2. Regarding 5th internet data set, we will have to rely on existing commercial AI-language models or open-source AI-language models, augmenting our own custom AI English model based on 4 data sets

Step-3: Build AI English Teacher software and systems

1. Select AI cloud platforms; AWS AI, Azure AI, IBM AI, or other cloud you prefer. These platforms have all the necessary AI tool sets to create, maintain, and monitor AI English Teacher
2. Build a custom AI workflow to simulate the English learning experience that student expects year by year. See the above table as a baseline workflow.
3. Select and build an AI Language model to ingest the 4 English domain-specific data sets. Note that you need a Text-to-Voice stack as well to create speaking capability.
4. Select a ready-made AI-Language model that has the internet data as a fallback option
5. Then, you have an AI English Teacher software ready. It will indeed engage with students interactively as a real English teacher.
6. Test and improve the accuracy iteratively

Step-4: Monitor and gather all the AI usage metrics

What problems this AI English Teacher is solving for the roughly 3+ million U.S. students and 1+ million English language arts teachers?

1. Increases the speed of the English learning curve for the students
2. Increases the available time in hand to apply creativity and imagination for the students
3. Students can be much smarter by taking available time and using that time to learn other skills
4. Reducing limitations of real English teacher capability
5. Real cost savings as few real teachers can facilitate the expected learning with this companion AI English Teacher
6. Real English Teacher will focus on creativity applications and increase the expectations in terms of total learning at each student level

Conclusion

What does this AI English Teacher do?

It takes care of day-by-day English teaching, assigns projects, prepares exams, and assigns ratings to students based on the student's grades.